Assistant Headteacher, KS4
Joseph Rowntree School, York, North Yorkshire, YO32 4BZ13 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
11 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L10-L14 (£62,202 to £68,586) - pending September 2025 pay award
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Joseph Rowntree School is an ambitious secondary school based in state of the art facilities located in New Earswick in York, with a large catchment area and a wealth of strong relationships and networks in the wider community.
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, strategic and inspirational Assistant Headteacher to lead Key Stage 4.
Specific responsibilities will include:
- building on and improving KS4 progress and outcomes so that they become excellent for all of our students
- further development of a culture and ethos that underpins the development of high levels of student aspiration and ambition
- leadership of the KS4 reward systems
- line management of specific departmental areas. These will be agreed in line with the successful candidates’ areas of expertise
The successful candidate will play a full role in our Senior Leadership Team. The appointment of our new Assistant Headteacher is a crucial part of our whole school improvement work and they will be integral to our plans for the future. They will share our commitment to high standards and will have the ability and ambition to help lead the school in the next stage of its development. We are focused on developing outstanding classroom practice and outcomes, providing excellent pastoral care and engaging students in wider opportunities and experiences that help develop them into well rounded individuals.
This is a fantastic opportunity for either an existing Assistant Headteacher or a successful Middle Leader looking to take the next step on the career ladder.
The successful candidate will:
- Be a strategic thinker and planner who can successfully lead school improvement
- Be wholly student centred in their approach, with a calm, unflappable nature
- Have the ability to positively influence the behaviours of different groups of students and individuals
- Have a demonstrable level of experience within secondary education that equips them to take this next step on their career path
- Have experience of successfully leading individuals and teams and holding them to account to help improve student outcomes
- Be able to use a range of leadership styles to create cohesive, supportive and effective teams
- Possess a practical understanding of how to analyse and use a full range of evidence, including performance data and external evaluations, to support, monitor, evaluate and improve aspects of the school, including challenging areas of under performance
- Be an excellent classroom teacher
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
- A strong support network and a supportive, cohesive community – relationships throughout the school are welcoming, kind, inclusive and thoughtful
- A strong, supportive Senior Leadership Team and Governing Body
- A financially healthy and well resourced working environment
- A school that wants to continue to evolve and improve, whilst maintaining its excellent reputation for pastoral care and support
- An ambitious curriculum, which aims to give every child a love and thirst for learning
- An excellent working environment with fantastic modern facilities
- Opportunities for growth and personal development
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@josephrowntreeschool.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Joseph Rowntree School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1283 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Joseph Rowntree School website
- Email address
- recruitment@josephrowntreeschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01904 552160
Welcome to our website and thank you for your interest in The Joseph Rowntree School. We are a successful 11-18 comprehensive school of over 1300 students, with over 200 students in the sixth form. Our modern buildings and state of the art facilities provide an excellent learning environment and our talented and dedicated team of staff are wholly committed to the school and its students. We offer a broad curriculum which enables students to develop knowledge and skills that lead to important qualifications and the nurturing of talents.
Arranging a visit to Joseph Rowntree School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@josephrowntreeschool.co.uk.
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